Hanford nuclear waste

More than 700 workers at the Hanford site in southeast Washington state could be furloughed because of the U.S. government shutdown.

In conversations with people and businesses across the Tri-Cities, you can sense a pall over this government town.At dinners and in hushed calls with…

(Runtime 1:01)There is a new plan for cleanup at the contaminated Hanford site.The U.S. Department of Energy, the federal Environmental Protection Agency,…

(Runtime 4:00)On a warm evening last month, Yakama Nation leaders and environmentalists got together to eat giant crab legs, salmon and cheesecake – and…

Congress recently allocated more than two billion dollars for cleaning up the Hanford site. Correspondent Lauren Paterson reports the funding is…

A Richland high schooler has been hard at work on his side-gig … directing a feature film about the Hanford radioactive cleanup site. The hour-long film…